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Friday, November 16, 2012

The Rest of the Year Challenge 4: Movember

The Rest of the Year
Challenge 4: Movember

I’m learning a lot from
this challenge. Before I started, I hadn’t even heard about the phenomenon
“Movember”.

Movember is a portmanteau of moustache and November. It is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of
moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer
and other male cancer initiatives. The goal of Movember is to "change the
face of men's health.”

The rules of conduct given on the Movember
site are:

Once registered at movember.com each mo bro must begin the 1st of
Movember with a clean shaven face.

For the entire month of Movember each mo bro must grow and groom a moustache.

There is to be no joining of the mo to sideburns.
That’s considered a beard.

There is to be no joining of the handlebars to chin.
That’s considered a goatee.

I started out with two coats of Borghese “Fantastico Lime”, which is a lime
green crème. I don’t like it much, to be honest, but it works for this mani.

Here’s a pic of two coats, no top coat:

Now for the moustaches. I’ve seen a tutorial
which make it look ridiculously easy to draw moustaches. It’s basically done by
making four dots on your nails with a dotting tool, and then connecting them
with either a thin dotting tool or a tooth pick. Let me just say that I found
it in no way as easy as it looked, and I ended up being not pleased at all with
my little moustaches.

Here there are, sealed up with a layer of
Seche Vite top coat:

It’s not very nice, is it? And here’s another
pic:

My boyfriend, who is very supportive, thinks
it looks a lot like Ned Flanders! LOL

Check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to
see what they came up with for Movember. I know for sure that they did better
than me! :)